Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/wihslaz

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *weyk-, *weyḱ- (“to change”) or maybe from Proto-Indo-European *weyk-, *weyg- (“to wind, bend”, literally “the act of yielding”).

Related to Latin vicis (“change”), Sanskrit विष्टी (viṣṭī, “changeable, changing”), and maybe to Proto-Germanic *wikǭ (“week”) and Proto-Germanic *wīkwaną (“to yield, to fold”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈwix.slɑz/

Noun

*wihslaz m

change

Inflection

masculine a-stemDeclension of *wihslaz (masculine a-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*wihslaz	wihslōz, wihslōs
vocative	*wihsl	wihslōz, wihslōs
accusative	*wihslą	*wihslanz
genitive	wihslas, wihslis	*wihslǫ̂
dative	*wihslai	*wihslamaz
instrumental	*wihslō	*wihslamiz

Related terms

*wihslōną

Descendants

Old English: wrixl f, wrixle n
Old Frisian: wixle wixele
- Saterland Frisian: Wiksel
- West Frisian: wiksel, wissel
Old Saxon: *wehsal, *wesl
- Middle Low German: wessele, wesle
  - German Low German: Wessel
Old Dutch: *wehsel, *wihsil
- Middle Dutch: wessel, wixel, wissele, wissel
  - Dutch: wissel
    - → Indonesian: wesel
Old High German: wehsal
- Middle High German: wëhsel
  - German: Wechsel
    - → Russian: ве́ксель (vékselʹ)
  - Luxembourgish: Wiessel
Old Norse: víxl
- Icelandic: víxill
- Norwegian: veksel (likely borrowed from German)
- Swedish: växel
- Danish: veksel (possibly borrowed from German)